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J*' FROM OPEN DRAW Train of Negro Excursionists Plunges into River. WATERY GRAVE FOR MANY Engine and Two Passenger Coaches Under Twer.ty-Five Feet of Water. Engineer Lest Control of the Brakes at Critical Moment. Owing to the inability of Engineer Reig to control his airbrakes, an excursion train from Kinston, N. C., bound to 'Norfolk, Va., plunged through an open draw in a bridge over the western branch of the Elizabeth river at Bruce Station, eight miles from Norfolk, Thursday, and a half hundred persons, mostly negroes, were drowned. Up to a late hour Thursday night only seven bodies had been recovered Irom the wreckage. The list of injured, so far as can be ascertain, numbers nearly one hundred, though moat of these are slightly hurt. A large number of physicians from Norfolk and nearby cities went to the acene. I Among the victims, the only white ones were Edward Jolieffe, manager of the excilrsion, and Edward Forbes, j wno assisiea mm, oo:n or ureenvuie, ; N. C. The Merritt Wrecking organization, Thursday night, dispatched an expedi-1 tion to the scene for the -purpose of raising the sunken cars, which lie in about 25 feet of water. Until the oars j are raised, no accuratea estimate of j the number of dead can be given, j Engine an<j Two Cars in River. The train was composed of an engine and six passenger care. The engine and two cars went through the draw, leaving the four rear cars on ; the track. One car was completely submerged, and the other partly submerged. Nothing is visible of the engine, not even the smokestack. It is believed that every occupant of the first car perished. The dead can be gotten oniy by diving under the car. The scene following the wreck was one of indescribable horror, with the shrieking of men, women and children who were drowning, struggling out of i the partly submerged coach and float-1 ing in the river. , ; ' The passengers who were uninjured j immediately started to rescue those j - imprisoned in the cars. Norfolk and ' Portsmouth were communicated with j and physicians were sent out on a I wrecking train. Many people* in the [ neighborhood went to the scene of the i wreck and helped in the rescue. The j injured were taken to the track em- j bankment and were attended there by j the physicians. Collins Ferguson, the negro bridge j tender of the Atlantic Coast Line, was ! knocked from the bridge by the im- ; pact and killed. Engineer Reig and Fireman Alfred Oooper, a negro, escaped by jump- j * lug. The wrecked train left Kinston, N. C., at 7 o'clock Thursday morning with 165 negro excursionists for Norfolk. It was due to arrive at Norfolk at 1 o'clock In the afternoon. Following j this train was another excursion train j over the same road bringing 3C0 ex- | curslonists from Rocky Mount, N. C. j Preceding the wrecked train was still | another excursion train carrying some three hundred merchants and others from Augusta, Ga? Charleston, S. 0., and Jacksonville, Fla., bound to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York for the purchase of fall goods. The first train arrived in Norfolk at 8:30 a. m., without accident and the Augusta, Jacksonville and Charles- j ton merchants all left for the north j by water. The Atlantic Coast Line officials, are at a loss to know why Engineer ' Reigs failed to stop his train before coming to the draw, as required by the rules of the road. An investigation of the cause of the wreck will be made at once and the responsibility placed where it belongs. Relgs himseJf could make no explanation. RIGHT OF EMINENT DOMAIN Given Telephone Companies by General Assembly of Georgia. The Georgia house of representatives Thursday afternoon by a vote of 116 to 24 passed the bill by Senator j Copelan, which has already passed the senate, conferring the same right of eminent domain u-pon telephone companies as is now enjoyed by telegraph companies, with the addition that both are to be given the right to use the public highways of the state under supervision of the county au horties. PRESIDENT ADDRESSES MINERS. Speaks Before Convention Being Held in Wilkesbarre, Pa. President Rocsevelt Thursday afternoon delivered an address to the anthracite coal miners at their convention in Wilkesbarre, Pa. The president was accompanied by his son, Kermit, his nephews, Hall and Philip Roosevelt. Acting Secretary Barnes. Jacob Ttiis and Lr. Charles P. Stokes, U. S. N. ) | MANY CASES; FEW DIE j ; Fever Situation at New Orleans Still Hcpeful, Wnile Scourge Makes , Progress at Other Points. I ; While the daily record of new tej ver eases in New Orleans shows a , ; tendency to rise slowly, the deaths j are stiK small, which furnishes a stim| ulus for the hope for better things ; i _ 1 before long. : | Following is the official report for ' j Thursday up to G o'clock p. m.: New j j cases, 74; total cases to date, 1,220; j ! deaths Thursday, 4; total* deaths to ! i date, ISO; cases under treatment, 424. j Twenty-three of the new cases were ! reported by one medical inspector, Thursday, while the district surgeons j : have been turning them in in batches 1 ; of from two to half a dozen. Only three : j of the new foci are above Canal i i street. One of the new cases is in i Bucktown, which is at the upper end j ? of Wesi End, and while on the edge ' j of the Jefferson parish line, is count- | j ed in New Orleans. ! The most important news outside ! tho ritv pams from Lafourche narish. I where the parish health officer, Dr. . j Stark, reports wide-spread infection in the Leeville settlement at the mouth i j of Bayou Lafourche. He says there are ! probably a hundred cases of sickness j j there, and he saw about one-third oi j 1 them. He diagnosed six as yellow J fever and classes the others as either i | a mild type of yellow fever or dengue, j This point is 80 miles south of tb? Southern Pacific road. The inhabitants of the settlement are mostly fishermen and oyster men, and they have been in close communication with Xew Orleans. They are mostly Italians and Austrians. The state board I has dispatched Dr. J. A. Devron to , assist Dr. Stark in treating the in- ' fection. Dr. A. J. Montz took immediate I charge of the situation at Terre Haute plantation in St. Charles, anu reported two nev cases. Dr. Bienvenue has been dispatched to La Place in St John parish, where twenty-one cases were found Wednesday. A dispatch from Gulf port says that there are four new cases at Mississippi City, making thirteen now under treatment One of the patients is in a critical condition. The mayor of Gulfport has appointed four physicians to make a house to house canvass of 4-v.o* t/snm oeAorfiQ.in if tharf is anv I bilCfct WVfl U WW UWWV4 WW*U *? VMW. sickness there. The discovery of this nest of infection on the Mississippi coast of such long standing has caused a good deal of perturbation in Mississippi, because of the open communication that has been held with Mississippi City, and there Is now a fear j that cases may bob up where least expected as a result. POPULISTS TAKE ACTION. Georgia Executive Committee Decides J to Put Out State Ticket. Resolutions calling upon the pop-1 ulists of every county in Georgia to bold county conventions and nominate county and judicial tickets were adopted at a state populist conference | held in Atlanta Thursday. It was also decided to put a state | ticket in the field, this to be done \ by a state convention, to be called J -LaVI- *>0 tho PY. I [J lyr icuiucu; uj v??, . ecutive committee. It was an enthusiastic meeting i which State Chairman J. J. Holloway i of Terrell county called to order. There were some fifty or more mem- j bers of the people's party present, reiv ! resenting every section of the state, | any many of them being members of j the state executive committee. EIGHT NEW GEORGIA COUNTIES. Senate Adopts Full Committee Report [ and Governor Will S:-gn Bills. The Georgia senate finished up its j work on the new counties Thursday j , by adopting in full the report of the 1 new county committee. Turner, Gra-1 dv, Toombs, and Steuhens were ere- i ated. This, following the action of the senate Wednesday afternoon fn , creating the counties of Tift, Crisp, j Jenkins and Jeff Davis, completed the : work of carving out new units in the j state of Georgia. I FEVER RECORD FOR TUESDAY. Some Improvement in Conditions at New Orleans Begins to Show. Tuesday's fever record in New Orleans showed the beginning of an improvement in the situation. With only ! siv-tv-rwo new cases fouind by the i almost perfect system which is now i in force, there is every reason to be- j iieve that the progress of the disease ; has been checked and its eradication : is only a question of a few weeks. The official report up to 6 p. in. j was as follows: New cases, 62; total j to date, 1,080; deaths, Tuesday, 6; j total deaths, 172. MUZZLES ROOSTERS AND DOGS. Mount Vernon, N. Y., Officials Put Ban on Nocturnal Noises. Roosters are forbidden to crow, dogs j to bark, bells to be tolled and engines J to toot their whistles in the suburb j of Mount Vernon, N. Y., between 10 j o'clock at night and 6 o'clock in the morning according to a decision reached at a meeting of the board c%, health. The ban will be placed on all these so-called nuisances. PALL OF PESSIMISM Reigned Over Peace Confer r- i ^ ence at rriaay s session. HOPE ALMOST DISSIPATED Hurried Telegraphic Consultation with Roosevelt is Held by Secretary Pierce, But Import Not Divulged. Black pessimism reigned at Portsmouth, N. H., Friday. The prevailing view is that the fate of the peace conference is already sealed^ ?hat it has ended in failure, and that ail that now remains is for the plenipotentiaries to meet on Tuesday to which they adjourned Friday afternoon upon completing the seriatim consideration of the Japanese terms, sign the final protocol, go through the conventions and bid each other farewell. But there is still room for hope of a compromise. Neither President Roosevelt nor the powers will see that chance of peace shipwrecked without a final effort, and that pressure is being exerted, especially at Tokio ,to induce Japan to moderate her terms, iB beyond question. Just what is being done or is to be done has not transpired. King Edward is understood to be now lending a helping hand, and the financiers of the world are known to be exerting all their influence. At Tokio and St. Petersburg, the final issue will be <}* j cided. The Japanese have been implacable i throughout the six day sittings. They | have listened and explained, but they i have yielded not an iota of the sub- j stance of their original demands. And now both sides turn to home j for the last word before the cards are ' thrown face upward upon the table , next Tuesday, for the impasse reach- ! ed Friday by the plenipotentiaries is j recognized to be only a diplomatic fiction. If, in the interim, fresh instructions are received by either side, compromise is yet possible. But the chances are recognized to : be slim. So far as the Ruesian pleni- j potentiaries are concerned, there nev- j er wae a chance of their yielding i both indemnity and Sakhalin. The cession of Sakhalin without tndem- | nity was, according to the b'est inside ; information, the extreme limit to j which Mr. Wltte would ever consent j to go and the emperor has not yet ; given the word even to concede that, j Amd suddenly, a new factor has ' been introduced, which, in the opinion j of those most competent to judge, le3- i sens materially the chances that he j might do so, namely, the issuance of i his manifesto granting a popular representative body to his subjects. The bearings of this "historic document," as Mr. Wltte described it a few days ago upon the issue, are easily ?com- . prehensible. It is bound to ameliorate the internal situation in Russia. It is the entering wedge for the real izatlon of the century old dream of ' the Russian people. "It will create enthusiasm at ! home," said one of the most promi- ! nent members of the Russian mission, I "because all thinking men realize that ! it means eventually^ great change in" the composition of the Russian state, j It will be followed by a true parlia- ; ment, a responsible ministry, a pre- ! mier and Russia will become a con- J stitutionai monarchy." At midnight Friday night, Secretary , Pierce was hurriedly called to the : Hotel Wentworth, where a message j was awaiting him from the president. i He immediately wrote a lengthy re- j ply. Later he was called to the tel- J egraph instrument, and for half an | hour carried on a conversation by j telegraph with the president, who was ; at the other end of the wire at Oyster j Bay. At 12:50 a. m., the telegraphic con- j versation with the president ceased, and Mr. Pierce left the hotel in hi3 j automobile. He said he was going j home, but beyond that declined to ! make any statement. "I can tell you i nothing," he said to all the anxious : inquiries of the newspaper men. JACK BONE ESCAPES GALLOWS, j Georgia Prison Commission Recom- j mends a Life Sentence. The Georgia prison commission Fri- j day heard the application for olemency in the case of Jack Bone, under sentence to hang in Floyd county, on August 25, and, after the hearing decided to recommend a commutation j of his sentence to life imprisonment, j Bone's two sisters were present dur- j ing the hearing. The petition request- j ing executive clemency on his behalf was signed by about 1,300 citizens of Floyd and Fulton counties. SCORE BURIED UNDER WALLS. Theatre Building at Pittsburg Collapses, Entombing Many Workmen. At 6:45 p. m., Sunday, the walls and first floor ceiling of the Avenue Theater building at Pittsburg, Pa., which was burned some time ago, and was being wrecked, preparatory to the construction of a new building, fell with j a crash, carrying down about twenty j Italian laborers, burying a number ' under the debris. f JOHN pAl j ! WHAT IS REGARDED AS THE M LIKE PORTRAIT OF ! _ BABYCHARM. ! ! There are points of similarity bO! tween the baby of highly civilized ! parentage and the offspring of the un! tutored savage. P?oth of them are de: lighted with toys or play with the rattle, finding much delight in the : sound. Nearly all peoples have dolls for their babies, and in the museum at Cairo there are dolls exhibited which are 7000 years old. Here is shown a baby charm carried by a childless married woman in Yechualaland. It is almost similar to the baby rattle used by that savage tribe, and as a fetich it is believed to have peculiar potency. ?New York Herald. Tolerating: the School. The schools are our natural enemies, the oar and the bat our hereditary friends and allies. Hut. after all, one cannot imagine an Oxford without its schools; if there were nothing to make the slacker do an occasional hour's work and to spur the reading man on to further efforts life up here would be very drab.?Oxford 'Varsity. IN THE PU] COMMANDS1 He will sail in search of the North Pole The Roo The Cork Tree In Arizona. E. O. Sowers, the mining man, has just come in from Pinal County and has brought with him a sample of cork bark taken from a tree on the Irions ranch. It is perhaps the only cork tree in Arizona and one of the very few cork trees ftin the United States, but the thrifty condition of it proves that cork can be produced here.?Arizona Republican. "Big Frank" McCoy, touted as the king of bank robbers, is dead. JL fONES. I ? a i Bn 1^ OST CHARACTERISTIC AND LIFE- ! COMMODORE JONES. , A ROYAL MUMMY. i Vf s r:'. - v.. v ^'''' ' ^ ; .V.'- '- V-' * ." ? V. * ' . ' - ' % ? - ' - ' ' i . I MiMMHHMMatOMMHBMHR R AMESES III. __ I One of the greatest finds in the history of archaeology was that of th? j royal mummies of Egyptian kings in j 1881. To conceal them from the hand | of the plunderer at a time when the i law was weak, they were removed from the royal tombs to a rocky cleft in the Libyan Mountains, where they remained hidden until 1875. Here they were discovered by some fellahin who did a thriving business in the relics found with them. After six years the source of their precious treasure was found out. One of these mummies was that of Rameses III., and whose wellpreserved face is seen in the picture i which was taken from his mummy mow in the Gizeh Museum. Omlaaiona of History. Jack Sprat hid just inf :ned his wife that he couldn't eat fat meat. ' I think you're just as mean as yob can belT tearfully exclaimed Mrs. Sprat. ''You know I can eat no lean! Poor little Fido will get nothing but i the bones!" But the unfeeling rtusband, picking up the morning paper and becoming absorbed In the details of the beef trust investigation, paid no attention to her indignant protest.?Chicago Tribune. BLIC EYE. R PEARY. in the staunch Maine-built vessel, sevelt. Brief But Eloquent. A small boy<s contribution to legislative literature is as follows: ' The legislature is necessary. We've got to have it. Paw says he's goin' where the Legislature is. Paw ain't never had much to say at home, but he says he's goin' to have his say in the Legislature?if he don't see Maw Lu the gallery." Mrs. Partington said, "Good health is a great blessing, especially when you are sick." # * 1 / . LOST 72 POUNDS. ffll fait Drifting Into the Fatal SttgM of Kidney Sickness. Dr. Mel Yin M. Page, Page Optical Co., Erie, Pa., writes: '"Taking too many iced drinks in New York in 1895 sent me home with a terrible attack of j kidney trouble. I had acute conges} tion, sharp pain in the back, headache! and attacks of diz ziness. My eyes gave out, and with the languor and sleeplessness of the disease upon me I wasted from 1D4 to 122 pounds. At the time I started using Doan's Kidney Pills an abscess was forming on my right kidney. The trouble was quickly checked, however, and the treatment * cured me, so that I have been well since 1896 and weigh 188 pounds." Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y. ^ i j For sale by all druggists. Price, 60 vjf cents per box. ONLY HALF TRUE. . ' Jj She?They say that every woman has a secret sorrow. Do you believe it? He?Well, she may have the sorrow all right?but it's no secret!?Detroit T71 ? X I ctj XI coo. RAW ITCHING ECZEMA. Blotches on Bonds, Bars and Ankles For Throe Years ? Instant Belief and Speedy Core by Cuticnrs. "Thanks to Cuticura 1 am now rid ol , ;> that fearful pest, weeping eczema, for the first time in three years. It first appeared J on my hand, a little pimple, growing into viij? several blotches, and then on my ears and , ; ankles. They were exceedingly painful, >i; itching, and always raw. After the first ^ | day's treatment with Cuticura Soap, Oint- ..yl ment and Fills, there was very little of the burning and itching, and the cure now ^ seems to be complete. (Signed) S. B. \ W; r fiege, Passenger Agent B. & O. B. K., v Washington, 1>. C." : r.^M THE FAMILY VICTIM. ? i m Having Made a Fortune, This Old Man Is Now Under Discipline. Every morning at 9 o'clock precisely an old gentleman, walking with the ; ^ aid of a stout cane, enters the side door of a Broadway saloon in the r J? Nineties and takes a seat in a corner , "'4 where he is comparatively safe from . J observation. The bartender, without - ^ asking questions, carries to him a cl- J'r^4 gar and a drink of whisky, and the -V' old gentleman smokes and sips in ap- ' 2$ parent contentment. Just before the c ; cigar is finished he takes another drink. Then he walks slowly down to Riverside Drive and sits in a shady v'-dS spot until lunch time, when he enters a fine mansion near by and is seen v no more until the following morning. 7'^ "That's a funny case," said the bar- ^ tender, as the old gentleman went out - . after his customary cigar and drinks. ^Sgj "He's a retired banker and lives in ^ luxury. He has a large family andthey have everything they wish for. But the old man is looked upon as , | a sort of necessary evil about the . ^ house. He is not permitted to smoko' ' in the house, and as for drinking? why, any member of the family would ^ have a fit if they saw anything of an alcoholic nature on the premises. "Now tha* he has made the money. - / which supports them, they relegate the old man to the rear, and he is at ^ that age where he hasn't spirit to re* * bel. So he comes in here every day \ and 'sneaks' his drink and smoke and goes back home contented. Ain't this a queer world?"?New York Press. f!; Motor Cars and Dust. After experiments with the motor' 7? car'which he uses daily, the chief surveyor of Essex finds that at a speed* not exceeding tf a miles an hour a 7 motor car creates comparatively little dust upon a properly made road, but at fifteen to twenty miles an hour, especially with heavy cars, the nuisance is intolerable. The expense, of | treating the main roads of the conn- J " *' - 1 try outsiae ine uruau uisuiuls nnu ^ ,-."3 tar macadam would be ?1,611,000.? ^ ' ^39 WRONG SORT Perhap? Plain <>1(1 M^at, Potatoes and Bread May lie Againat l'ou For a Time. * A change to the right kind of food' can lift one from a sick bed. A lady in Welden, 111., says: "Last spring I became bedfast with severe stomach trouble accompanied by sick headache. I got worse and worse ] until I became so low I coukl scarcely retain any food at all. although I tried \j, every kind. I had become complete- v] ly discouraged, had given up all hope and thought I was doomed to starve to death, till one day my husband trying to find something I could retain brought home some Grape-Nuts. f "To my surprise the food agreed with me, digested perfectly and without dis- "" tress. I began to gain strength at once, my flesh ?which had been flabby) grew firmer, my health improved In" every way and every day, and in a very few weeks I gained 20 pounds in , weight. I liked Grape-Nuts so well that for 4 months I ate no other rood, and always felt as well satisfied after f eating as if I had sat down to a fine 'f tanquet. "I had no return of the miserable ? sick stomach nor of the headaches that I used to have when I ate other food. I am now a well woman, doing all my own work again, and feel that life i* worth living. "Grape-Nuts food has been a godsend to ray family; it surely saved my life and my two little boys have thriven cn f-*. it wonderfully." 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